My Loves! I’ve missed you! I hope you’ve all had a wonderful spring. I have, and now I’m back, and summer is nigh in the Northern Hemisphere, with a full moon to boot.

I whipped up a little R&R themed tarot spread for this week’s solstice. Summer is for your enjoyment. Met with a plan, it’ll fuel you up for the year to come. Left to its own devices, this season will burn your winter-self right off your bones and shed you pink and prickly. Consider this spread a treasure map, pointing out where to indulge, and where not to over-indulge.

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​Place the Sun card in the middle of your table before you shuffle and draw anything else. The sun is at its peak power up north. Summer means everything for us that the tarot Sun does.

1. Recover & Renew: What do I most need to pull from this season? What do I need to soak up from the Sun?

2. Rest & Relax: Where in my life do I most need to rest and relax? What’s stressors can I step away from for a spell? What can afford to sit on the back-burner while I take a minute?

3. Rumpus & Romp: Where in life can I celebrate and play? What’s a good theme for a summer adventure?

4. Release & Re-Block: Where do I need to watch for burnout? How can I protect myself to get the best out of the season with minimal scrapes and burns?

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One last R for you: summer reading - yum!

My current list starts with a revisit to all my old Calvin & Hobbescollections, inspired by watching Dear Mr. Watterson on Netflix. For something old but new to me, Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince(translated by Richard Howard) and An Anthropologist on Marsby Oliver Sacks. I haven’t read either yet. Then I’m re-visiting Michael Koryta’s supernatural thrillers So Cold The Riverand The Ridgebecause ghost stories. Great storytelling, just creepy enough, and The Ridge is full of big cats (!!!). I can’t wait to get my paws on a copy of Will Do Magic For Small Changeby Andrea Hairston later this summer. (Her Redwood and Wildfire is one of my favorites.) Finally, for poetry, a copy of Janine Pommy Vega’s Mad Dogs of Trieste. (I’ll admit I picked it up in a used book shop years ago cause I liked the cover art, but I still haven’t cracked it open and have no clue whether or not I like her writing.)

What are you guys reading this summer? Comment with your top picks!

Commercial Use of Tarot Spreads (UPDATED 11/26/18)

I aim first and foremost to helping people learn and use tarot for themselves. Everything I post is free to use at home or share with friends for personal, educational, non-commercial ends. That said, I recognize that some people will use my tarot spreads with paying clients, and I couldn't stop them even if I wanted to.

If you use my original spreads for paid client work, please make a donation--whatever is fair and proportionate to your use--to support the site and help me keep releasing free tarot spreads for all my readers. If you share my work on your website, blog, or social media pages, give credit and link back (or tag @evviemarin on Instagram) so others can find these resources.

My work is not for re-sale or promotional give-away. Do not use my spread diagrams or illustrations as promotional materials in your own business or website. If you have any questions about use drop me a line.

I do not take any responsibility for the quality or content of others' readings. I do not endorse or recommend tarot readers or psychics. Some folks use my spreads in paid client work. None of them are affiliated with me, or recommended or endorsed by me.

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My name is Evvie Marin. I'm an artist, writer, and ever-loving sucker for the woo arts, especially tarot. I have a B.A. in fine art and theatre and I've been reading tarot cards for about seventeen years.

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